As a number of museums around Los Angeles and Orange County plan their two days of free admission this weekend, one of that's not participating has a different kind of announcement. The Huntington Library, which is free on the first Thursday of the month, announced the acquisition of eight new paintings, sculptures and furniture.......

Bandini, author of the sweet (yet not-recently updated, cough cough) LA blog The Great Taco Hunt, asks, "I wonder how much furniture Lane Kiffin bought from HD Buttercup?" To fully understand this joke/question/accusation, one must know who Lane Kiffin is, and what H. D. Buttercup is. H. D. Buttercup is an upscale, interior designer's wet dream in Culver City, housed in the beautiful 100,000 square-foot Helms Bakery building. Built during the depression to celebrate......